Hey, Having been involved in the Dutch Wikikids project over the past years (full disclosure: this is a small part of my work for the Kennisnet Foundation which supports this initiative) I can tell you a little more about it.
Wikikids is run by a small foundation which has 5 trustees (who are all educators). They have 12889 articles and over 9000 pictures. They get about 3,5 million website visits a year. An important part is that they feel that the writing of the article by kids is actually a way for them to learn. While the end result is also important, the writing and improving is at least of equal (if not higher) importance. The english page on the project is here: http://wikikids.nl/Wikikids:English_explanation (I am not sure but I think one or two of the founders might be on this mailing list, but probably not actively following it) Jan-Bart On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Laurent Jauquier <laurent.jauqu...@unifr.ch> wrote: > Hi Will, > > After four years of activity, I can't recall a case in which an adult had > tried to pass itself off as a child or that we even suspected such a case on > Wikimini. In fact it is important to note that adults are also fully involved > in the project and they even have their own dedicated portal on the wiki. I > mean, our users are not *only* children, and furthermore, the collaboration > between the latter and adults is an important component of Wikimini. > > From a safety standpoint it should also be noted that unlike many other > community websites and services aimed at children (think of chat systems, > message boards, online games, virtual worlds, social networks...) there is no > way to engage in private exchanges with other users on Wikimini. Moreover the > email functionality has been deactivated. > > Laurent > http://wikimini.org > > 2013/4/18 Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> > How do you ensure that the contributors are children ? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jane Park <janep...@creativecommons.org> > To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 2:38 pm > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimini, the Children's Encyclopedia has > reached 10 000 articles (word cloud inside) > > This is very cool! Are there any children oriented wikis in other languages? > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Laurent Jauquier <laurent.jauqu...@unifr.ch> > wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm pleased to let you know that Wikimini in French (http://fr.wikimini.org) > has reached 10 000 articles. For those who don't know our project, Wikimini > is a free encyclopedia written by children and young teenagers, both at > school and at home. It currently exists in French and the site is based on > Mediawiki (same software used by Wikipedia). > > Word cloud: > > On this very special occasion, our aspiring encyclopedists were asked to > choose 3 words that would best describe the project in their eyes. A word > cloud was built using the words we had received and their frequency. I wanted > to share it with you, so I translated it in English: > > ==> http://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/7/7c/EN-Wikimini_in_75_words.png > > I hope you'll find it interesting and inspiring. > > Laurent > http://wikimini.org > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > -- > Jane Park > Project Manager > Creative Commons > > the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/ > > Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > Education@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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